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Thursday, January 31, 2008 

AP's lip service to Quesada on Capt. America case

Now that they put Bucky in the role of the Star-Spangled Avenger, the Associated Press has taken the time to pay lip service to Joe Quesada and Marvel in what they're doing. Predictably, they gloss over a lot of details, including that bionic arm Bucky got:
Barnes never swallowed the "Super Soldier Serum" that transformed the wimpy Rogers into the super-strong Captain America in the months before World War II. So he's at a bit of a disadvantage in his new role. But he's bulked up himself over the years, become a master at special operations and he's also packing some serious heat these days along with that mask and shield.
They don't mention the bionic arm, nor that he'd been turned into an assassination tool by the Soviets.
But forget about defeating enemies in the fantasy world. The people he will really have to win over are those notoriously finicky comic book readers.
Uh oh, I think I just caught the AP in the act of smearing the readership again. Tsk tsk tsk.
Quesada says he isn't worried, however, adding that killing off Captain America last year seemed to give him new life with readers. The editor was taken aback when newspapers even carried obituaries on the character.

"Not since the 1940s have we seen Cap being this popular," he said.
Maybe Quesada is too naive to realize it, but the only reason why the story made headlines is because they killed him off. If Cap were in a story where he battled HYDRA and tried to foil one of their evil terrorist plots, the press would be less likely to take notice. This is the problem with the press, that they're only willing to take notice when it's something symbolic of defeat: the death of a hero instead of a victory.

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